Posted on 04/23/2012 7:01:52 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Metta World Peace was subdued and contrite in the Los Angeles Lakers' locker room, apologizing to Oklahoma City's James Harden for throwing the elbow that sent them both to the locker room in the second quarter.
They both missed a beauty of a game that could echo into the postseason for two division leaders.
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Heck, at 10 feet high now, most NBA players barely make 60% of their Free Throws.
Same here....since the GREAT Jerry West ret. during the ‘74 season. These savage thug punks today couldn’t carry ‘Mr. Clutch’s’ jock.
Amen to that. I seem to recall the days when pro basketball was entertaining and the scores would be something like 145 to 140. They could actually make a set shot and dunking didn't come in until Wilt and Kareem got into the act and most of the good players could shoot foul shots with their eyes closed.
Shaq would have been the greatest player ever if he only made his free throws.....teams knew they could foul him knowing he’d probably miss, it wound up shortening his career by at least a few years.
Then why is the average free throw percentage per team around 75%?
The white players?
In 2009, NBA players shot just over 77% from the foul line, an all-time record. For the last 50 years, the annual NBA free throw percentage has been about 75%. There is virtually no change year-over-year.
What I said was entirely true. I said Artest never even looked at him, just whaled away with his elbow upside the head of the other guy. I never said a word about the innocence of the other guy.
Please tell me what was not true about what I said.
Artest didn’t ‘just whale away with his elbow upside the head of the other guy’.
Absent Harden’s deliberate provocation, I doubt Artest would have delivered the elbow.
One action led to the other. Context is king.
Here’s your context.
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/82474755/
If the elbowing with an accident as he says, then he would have stopped to see if Harden was okay. He did not. He just walked away as if nothing happened.
Proves my point...Harden instigated the whole thing. Doesn’t absolve Artest, but if Harden hadn’t initiated the contact, he wouldn’t have got the elbow in the head.
He could have killed him.
He threw an elbow at Chis Paul earlier in the year. Anybody can watch the play and see that he is pretending like it was inadvertant. The guy just likes a good brawl, it’s that simple.
Yeah, Harden had it coming all right. GMAFB.
Not entirely true....Harden deliberately stepped into MWP and started the contact.
Not defending the cheap shot, but Harden isn’t innocent here.
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Completely, 100% false and incorrect.
Harden was closely trailing the play, running nearly full speed, and was coming to a normal and reasonable stop after the dunk.
Whirled Peas turned quickly after the dunk, did not look where he was going as he was thumping his chest, bumped into Harden, then nailed the completely unsuspecting Harden in the head with the hardest elbow he could muster.
Harden has ZERO intended contribution to the assault. ZERO negligence.
Never said Harden deserved the elbow to the head...only that he instigated the incident.
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